🚀 go-pugleaf

Full quote to comp.lang.pascal.borland,borland.public.turbopascal, which
  a) will get it to c.l.p.b where so many interested hang out
  b) won't dupe it on forums.borland.com
  c) will dupe it on leaked b.p.t - if you see both this & its 
     predecessor in b.p.t, you're reading a leaked copy & TeamB
     probably won't see what you post.

JRS:  In article <38AC0700.F913C533@uk.pwcglobal.com> of Thu, 17 Feb
2000 14:34:41 in news:borland.public.turbopascal, Jan Forsberg
<Jan.Forsberg@uk.pwcglobal.com> wrote:
>The old problem is back, even though I am using a patch that have been
>working for 2 years.  Am I going nuts or is there someone else with the
>same problem??  Please try your patched Borland Pascal exes on the
>latest Pentium III machines.
>
>This is my situation :
>
>The application is compiled using Borland Pascal 7.01.  I have compiles
>both for real and protected mode.
>
>The two client machines I am using are :
>- Compaq DeskPro, Pentium II 450 Mhz, Windows NT 4.0 with SP6b
>- Compaq DeskPro, Pentium III 550 Mhz, Windows NT 4.0 with SP6b
>
>The exe-files are placed on a Novell Netware 3.12 server.  Both machines
>are running the same exe-files.
>
>The 450Mhz can happily start both real and protected mode versions of my
>application.
>
>The 550Mhz can not start neither the real or protected mode version.  It
>displays the message 'Runtime error 200'.
>
>I have without any success tried to :
>- use Windows 95
>- use Windows NT 4.0 with SP4
>- in the properties of a shortcut change the settings for memory
>protection and sizes.
>
>The patch I am using was downloaded 2 years ago, I do not remember from
>where.
>The name of it is T-PENT2.ZIP.  PkZip 2.04g shows the following contents
>:
>
> Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   Name
> ------  ------   ----- -----   ----    ----   ----
>   6032  DeflatN   4176  31%  07-21-97  17:58  PENT2.EXE
>   1377  DeflatN    667  52%  07-21-97  17:58  PENT2.PAS
>    369  DeflatN    248  33%  07-21-97  18:00  FILE_ID.DIZ
> ------          ------  ---                   -------
>   7778            5091  35%                         3
>
>The text in the FILE_ID.DIZ is
>
>---===< A UTILITY FROM TERMINATE >===--
>. PENTIUM II fixer for: Turbo/Borland .
>. pascal Delay command  found  in the .
>. CRT unit and in TurboPower's Object .
>. Professional and Async Professional .
>. Some  PENTIUM II  processors   will .
>. give you a  RUNTIME ERROR 200 which .
>. is "Division by zero"  without this .
>-------======< FREEWARE >======--------
>
>The source code file Pent2.pas shows that the patch is
>- searching for the string #$f7+#$d0+#$f7+#$d2+#$b9+#$37+#$00+#$f7+#$f1;
>
>- replacing the first byte with #$7E
>
>The patch is applied in two locations in my exe-files.  One corresponds
>to the CRT unit and the other to a Swedish graphics package,
>MultiGraphics, that had the same problem.
>
>Please, someone, tell me I am not going nuts.

Sounds convincing.  Never heard of it.  I'll put a copy in my relevant
WWW directory.

I use Andreas Bauer's TPPATCH.  Osmo Ronkanen may recommend his, and
indicate the (presumed) difference.  But you should look into Pedt
Scragg's crt.zip - which I've looked at but not used (by the time it
appeared, most of my programs avoided use of the Crt unit, one way or
another).
 
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� John Stockton, Surrey, UK.  jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk   Turnpike v4.00   MIME. �
 <URL: http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> TP/BP/Delphi/&c., FAQqy topics & links;
 <URL: ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip> Timo Salmi's Turbo Pascal FAQ;
 <URL: http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/clpb-faq.txt> Pedt Scragg: c.l.p.b. mFAQ.